RoQ

• Extensions: roq
• Company: Id Software
• Technical Description: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/videocodec/idroq.txt
• Official Encoder (win32): ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/tools/roq.zip

RoQ is a full motion video format originally developed for The 11th Hour by Graeme Devine. The format was later used as the FMV format for Quake III: Arena and derivative games.

According to excerpts of Devine's 11th Hour development journal published in Wired at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.08/shipping.html, the RoQ format was named after Devine's newborn daughter, Roqee.

Switchblade roq encoder with source can be found here http://icculus.org/homepages/riot/

Games Using RoQ

These games are known to use the RoQ format, often because they are based on the Quake III engine.

• The 11th Hour
• American McGee's Alice
• Quake III: Arena
• Return To Castle Wolfenstein
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast
• Clandestiny